CAIRO >> Despite persistent human rights concerns, the United States on Sunday resumed formal security talks with Egypt that were last held six years ago and kept on hiatus until now amid the political unrest that swept the country in the wake o...

WASHINGTON >> Vice President Joe Biden’s associates have resumed discussions about a 2016 presidential run after largely shelving such deliberations while his son was sick and dying earlier this year. But Biden has yet to tell his staff w...

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Missing persons

Los Angeles police asked for the public’s help Sunday to locate a Special Olympian from Albania who participated in the World Games and was last seen Saturday night on the USC campus. Andi Gusmari, 44, of Albania was last seen on the campus at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday night at a festival, said LAPD Officer Jack Richter, a spokesman. Gusmari, who does not speak English, was discovered missing when he failed to return to his dormitory that night. Gusmari was last seen...

Space exploration

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades. A new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center features two pieces of debris, one from each lost shuttle, as well as poignant, personal reminders of the 14 astronauts killed in flight. It is an unprecedented collection of artifacts — the first time, in fact, that any Challenger or Columbia remains have been openly...

By Marcia Dunn
The Associated Press
|24 mins ago

Movies & TV

HOLLYWOOD >> A documentary on prisoners serving life sentences without the possibility of parole at California State Prison, Los Angeles County, will premiere on HBO at 9 p.m. Monday. “Toe Tag Parole: To Live and Die on Yard A,” focuses on the 600 men living at the prison’s Progressive Programming Facility, who seek self- improvement and spiritual growth through education, art and music therapy, religious services and participation in peer-group...

City News Service
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Breaking News

POMONA >> Two young women died of suspected drug overdoses after attending the HARD Summer Festival in Pomona Saturday night, authorities said. The women, both 19, died after being hospitalized for reported drug overdoses in separate incidents during the first day of the two-day electronic music festival at the Fairplex, 1101 W. McKinley Ave., Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Lt. Fred Corral said. The identities of the women were not released.

Box office receipts

LOS ANGELES >> The stakes may be high for Ethan Hunt and his team in “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” but it was hardly impossible for the Tom Cruise pic to conquer the box office. The fifth installment in the nearly 20-year-old film series has earned $56 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Opening weekend audiences were 62 percent male and 81 percent over the age of 25. It’s the second-highest opening for a...

By Lindsey Bahr
The Associated Press
|2 hrs ago

National News and World News

HANOVER, Pa. >> Many Americans assumed the Confederate flag was retired for good after governors in South Carolina and Alabama removed it from their statehouses this summer and presidential candidates from both parties declared it too divisive for official display. But people still fly it, and not just in the South, despite announcements by leading flag-makers and retailers that they will no longer sell products showing the secessionist battle flag. Some who display it are...

By Mark Scolforo and Jeffrey Collins
The Associated Press
|4 hrs ago

Plane crashes

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia >> Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris. A new piece of debris, meanwhile, found on Sunday on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean turned out to be a “domestic ladder,” and doesn’t belong to a plane, Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin...

By Eileen Ng and Thomas Adamson
The Associated Press
|4 hrs ago

National News and World News

KUNITACHI, Japan >> On a recent weekend, an 84-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing retraced his movements on a map: the inferno during his 20-kilometer (12-mile) walk home, the “black rain” of falling radioactive particles and how he felt sick days later. His audience of eight listened intently, some asking questions and taking notes. They hope to tell his story to future generations after he is gone, to take their listeners to the scene on Aug. 9,...

By Mari Yamaguchi
The Associated Press
|4 hrs ago

Weather

Los Angeles beach cities on Sunday morning will see low clouds and fog, becoming sunny with 15 mph southwest winds in the afternoon. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s at the beaches to the low to mid 80s inland. Sunday night will be mostly clear early with 15 mph west winds in the evening, then low clouds and fog overnight. Lows will be in the in the mid 60s. The outlook for the next few days will see sunny skies with morning and night low clouds and fog with consistent...

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Automotive accidents

Police believe a wrong-way driver who caused a fiery and deadly crash on the Gerald Desmond Bridge Saturday morning is the same man who crashed through barricades set up for the Special Olympic athletes competing in Long Beach later that same morning. Long Beach police received reports that a man in a 2012 Mercedes-Benz sedan was “driving erratically and crashing through barricades” in the area of the Special Olympic half-marathon, according to a Long Beach Police...